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Workshop

Exploring the energy frontier with muon beams

Jun 30, 2025 - Aug 01, 2025



Abstract
In this workshop we will explore the opportunities unleashed by progress in muon-based experiments, with particular focus on a multi-TeV muon collider. We will discuss both Standard Model precision physics and the search for new phenomena at the highest possible accelerator energies.

Muon beams up to multi-TeV energies hold the potential to revolutionize the exploration of the high-energy frontier. At the same time, they require the development of new methods and tools in particle theory as well as in collider experiments and accelerator physics. Our workshop will bring together experts, as well as young generations, from these communities and will provide the setting to weave together the strategy to get to the next new kind of particle collider. In addition the workshop will serve as a platform to develop possible synergies with all the communities potentially interested in muon beams, and in the technologies that are necessary to develop it. Thus we will discuss the synergy from intense proton beams and the intense hadron and neutrino beams that they can source, enabling exploration of the lepton and neutrino sector, as well as dark matter and dark sectors and other investigations at the intensity frontier.

During the workshop we will organize several pedagogical activities aimed at increasing the awareness and competence in the high energy physics theoretical community on the exciting possibilities enabled by progress expected in muon beams and collider technologies. We will also organize small groups focused on further developing key tools needed for muon collider R&D.

Lectureres of the Training Week:

Luca Bottura (CERN) – High field magnets
Kevin Black (Wisconsin) – Detector challenges for the next generation of particle colliders
Daniele Calzolari (CERN, Padua U.) – Machine-detector interface
Anton Lechner (CERN) – Machine-detector interface
Elias Metral (CERN) – Collective effects and lattice design
Hitoshi Murayama (IPMU, Berkeley) – Microscopic physics at the TeV scale
Davide Pagani (INFN) – Challenges of SM and QFT at future colliders
Daniel Schulte (CERN) – Introduction to muon colliders and challenges in their exploitation
Chris Rogers (RAL, STFC) – Theory of Ionisation Cooling
Chris Rogers (RAL, STFC) – Introduction to Accelerator Physics


Topics
Topics to be discussed include: the physics of Standard Model particles at multi-TeV energies, and in particular the phenomenology across the frontier of electroweak symmetry restoration at high energy; searches for new physics at the high-energy frontier; possible uses of muon beams and related technologies for further exploration of fundamental interactions at the high-intensity frontier; synergies with other experiments in flavor, dark matter, neutrino physics, and more

Week-1 Training Week: Introduction To Muon Beams And Applications
Week-2 Focus Week: Precision Physics (SM)
Week-3 Focus Week: New Physics (BSM)
Week-4 Synergy Week: Physics With Muon Beams
Week-5 Public Conference: "Physics At The Highest Energies With Colliders"


Organizers
J. Scott Berg (BNL, USA)
Dario Buttazzo (INFN Pisa)
Roberto Franceschini (Roma Tre U. and INFN)
Tova Holmes (University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA)
Patrick Meade (Stony Brook University, USA)
Fabio Maltoni (Louvain, Bologna U. and INFN)
Federico Meloni (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DE)


Contact
dario.buttazzo@pi.infn.it
roberto.franceschini@uniroma3.it

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Talks
Date Speaker Title Type Useful Links
Jul 07, 2025 - 15:30-17:00 Gong show Introduction
Jul 07, 2025 - 17:00-18:30 Fluka/Geant shop Kick-off of the Fluka/Geant shop. Discussion
Jul 08, 2025 - 11:00-12:30 Kirill MELNIKOV Precision phenomenology at colliders: what are the limits? Lecture Video
Jul 08, 2025 - 15:00-16:30 Davide PAGANI Precision phenomenology at multi-TeV muon colliders Lecture
Jul 09, 2025 - 11:00-12:30 Francesco GAROSI The neutrino content of the muon. Lecture Video
Jul 09, 2025 - 15:00-18:00 Discussion with D. Neuffer, M. Peskin, B. Rosser, A. Wulzer muCol for precision: do we need it? can we attain it? only at low energy stages? Discussion
Jul 10, 2025 - 11:00-12:30 Richard RUIZ Partons and muons. Lecture Video
Jul 10, 2025 - 15:00-16:30 Juergen REUTER New developments in the Whizard event generator or work in progress. Lecture Video
Jul 11, 2025 - 11:00-12:30 Fluka/Geant TBC - shop Intermediate meeting of the Fluka/Geant shop Lecture
Jul 14, 2025 - 16:00-18:00 P. Meade BSM week introduction Lecture
Jul 15, 2025 - 11:00-12:30 Natascia Vignaroli Muon colliders probes of Marjoarana neutrino dipole moments and masses Lecture Video
Jul 15, 2025 - 15:00-16:30 Alfredo Glioti Exploring the Flavour Symmetry Landscape Lecture Video
Jul 16, 2025 - 11:00-12:30 Maxilimilian Löschner Z' boson mass reach and model discrimination at Muon Collliders Lecture Video
Jul 16, 2025 - 15:00-17:00 R. Kitano, M. Oeskin, C. Quigg, A. Wulzer BSM Discussion Discussion
Jul 17, 2025 - 11:00-12:30 Xing Wang Electroweak scattering at muon shot and the EWfit Lecture Video
Jul 17, 2025 - 15:00-18:00 Galileo Medal at Villa "IL Gioiello" Seminar
Abstract

Galileo Medal at Villa "IL Gioiello"

The 2025 Galileo Galilei Medal has been awarded to Pierre Sikivie and Leonard Susskind, "for their work representing humanity's persistent efforts to see and understand what may seem invisible, revealing in the process deep connections between the largest and smallest scales of Nature".

More Info Video
Jul 18, 2025 - 11:00-12:30 Yang Ma Higgs-muon interactions at a multi-TeV muon collider Lecture Video
Jul 18, 2025 - 15:00-16:30 Bhupal Dev Probing the Origin of Neutrino Mass at Future Muon Collider Seminar Video
Jul 21, 2025 - 11:00-12:00 Andrea Wulzer Introduction: What is the muon collider? Lecture
Jul 21, 2025 - 15:00-16:00 Ryuichiro Kitano The importance of synergy Lecture
Jul 22, 2025 - 10:00-11:00 Lorenzo Calibbi Lepton Flavor Violation Seminar